CVE-2019-5645

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-5645
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-01 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-08 17:31:00 UTC
DescriptionBy sending a specially crafted HTTP GET request to a listening Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP handler, an attacker can register an arbitrary regular expression. When evaluated, this malicious handler can either prevent new HTTP handler sessions from being established, or cause a resource exhaustion on the Metasploit server.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rapid7 Metasploit All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
added metasploit http DoS module by deepsight · Pull Request #12433 · rapid7/metasploit-framework · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: This issue was reported by Jose Garduno of Dreamlab Technologies, AG

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